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Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Indo-Pacific swamp crab (Scylla serrata) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [1]Scylla serrata (often called mud crab or mangrove crab, although both terms are highly ambiguous, and black crab) is an ecologically important species of crab found in the estuaries and mangroves of Africa, Australia, and Asia.
Scylla tranquebarica is a species of mangrove crab in the genus Scylla. Scylla tranquebarica, one of several crabs known as the mud crab, is found in mangrove areas from Pakistan and Taiwan to the Malay Archipelago and other Indo-Pacific regions. [1]
Crabs of the family Panopeidae are all free-living (not commensal or parasitic), [2] and typically live in soft-bottomed parts of the ocean, [3] lending them the common name "mud crabs" (a name also shared by other organisms). They burrow into the sediment and feed on a variety of marine invertebrates. [3]
orange mud crab: Southeast Asia to Pakistan, and from Japan to northern Australia Scylla paramamosain Estampador, 1949: South China Sea south to the Java Sea Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775) black crab: Southern Japan to south-eastern Australia, northern New Zealand Scylla tranquebarica (Fabricius, 1798)
Eurypanopeus depressus, the flatback mud crab or depressed mud crab, is a true crab belonging to the infraorder Brachyura and the family Panopeidae. [2] It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean and is often found in estuaries and lagoons, commonly living in close association with oysters .
Mud crab may refer to any crab that lives in or near mud, such as: Scylla serrata; Scylla tranquebarica; Scylla paramamosain; Scylla olivacea; Members of the family ...
Panopeus herbstii, also known as the black-fingered mud crab, black-clawed mud crab, Atlantic mud crab or sometimes common mud crab, is a species of true crab, belonging to the infraorder Brachyura, and is the largest of the mud crabs. Panopeus herbstii is small, growing to about 4 cm, with black-tipped claws of unequal size.
The knot-fingered mud crab is a small crab with unequal-sized chelae. The larger one is particularly broad and has teeth in the "molar area" and an immobile finger. Often this claw is worn and coalesced. The carapace and upper side of the limbs are a dull mottled reddish colour while the undersides of the body and limbs are whitish.